The Silver Queen (Henry Rowley Bishop)

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• (Posted 2023-09-24)  CPDL #75703:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-24).   Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 798 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Silver Queen
Composer: Henry Rowley Bishop
Lyricist: Thomas John Dibdin
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1864 Novello, Ewer & Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

The Silver Queen, whose cheerful ray
Illumes the stream with seeming day,
Can warm this wakeful, anxious breast
To meet my love, when others rest.

By yon pale moon the signal soon
No more shall sound so drearily;
’Ere night is done, ’ere morning sun,
The shell will then sound cheerily!

When the `ire`ly lights his cold pale lamp,
And the storm bird sleeps on the sedgy swamp;
When the moonbeams o’er the waters play,
Then, then will our Tribe no longer stay!